Lego's Latest Star Wars Set Makes Jabba's Sail Barge Bigger Than Ever

Such is inevitable in the worlds of both Star Wars and Lego that things repeat—ideas to return to and be improved upon, whether it’s bringing a character back over and over or, in Lego’s case, picking an iconic design and trying to do it the best justice you can with contemporary design over 25 years of iteration . Its latest Star Wars “Ultimate Collector Series” set goes back to Jabba’s Sail Barge, and makes it even bigger that it has ever been in brick-built form before.

This morning Lego revealed that the next Star Wars UCS set, releasing next month, will be a massive recreation of the Khetanna, aka Jabba’s Sail Barge from Return of the Jedi . Clocking in at a whopping 3,942 pieces, the 30-inch-long model dwarfs the company’s prior takes on the Sail Barge from 2013 (just 850 pieces) and 2006 (781). And not just in pieces either: the set will also come with 11 minifigures recreating of course Jabba, his associates and his various partygoers, and a few key rebel heroes. Here’s the full breakdown of who’s who:

• Jabba the Hutt
• Bib Fortuna, Jabba’s Twi’lek majordomo
• Salacious B. Crumb, the Kowakian monkey lizard
• Max Rebo, the luckiest Ortolan musician in the galaxy
• Kithaba, a Klatooinian skiff guard
• Vizam, a Nikto weapons master
• Wooof, another of Jabba’s Nikto goons
• A Gamorrean Guard
• Princess Leia, in her Huttslayer outfit
• C-3PO
• R2-D2, complete with the drink tray he wears to serve guests before Luke’s breakout

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The full set features a detailed interior, including a cockpit, prison and armory, kitchen, and entertainment room with space for Jabba’s throne, all viewable by lifting up the left side panel of the barge, and of course a detailed exterior, including gun emplacements and the fateful blaster cannon Luke fires to destroy the barge after rescuing Leia. Alas, there’s no included skiff to really complete the scene, but hey, that’s why Lego just so happened to release that separate Sarlacc pit and Skiff playset last month, isn’t it?

Of course, all this increase in size and scope will mean an increase in price too: the UCS Sail Barge will set you back a hefty $500 when it releases in a few weeks, beginning on October 3 for Lego Insider Members, and then October 6 for its full release. As a bonus, anyone who buys the set from Lego during that period will receive a bonus gift set in the form of a small buildable replica of Luke’s green lightsaber from Return of the Jedi .

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